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Failure/Freeze "Preparing video information ..."

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Carsten Schiefelbein

Started a topic Sun, 15 Jun, 2014 at 11:19 PM

Hi,

all my attempts to export a video (file, Facebook, youtube, powerpoint) have ended with the small window saying "preparing video information". The canvas stays completely white - I was waiting up to an hour.

Can you help me?

A video software that can not create videos feels somehow useless.

Regards, Carsten

Hardware:

MacBook Air, 11", Mitte 2013

Prozessor 1,7 GHz Intel Core i7

Speicher 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Software OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)

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Mike Metcalf

On Mon, 16 Jun, 2014 at 1:26 AM

Hi,

1) You may want to save a copy online for the support staff to look at, or upload the .scribe file here in this thread for other members to examine.

2) Sometimes saving your work and then restarting videoscribe can temporarily resolve memory related problems and allow you to render.

3) The most likely problems that contribute to memory related freezes, crashes and failure so render, are improperly prepared images, excessive camera movement/zoom, and possibly bugs with version 2.0 of videoscribe.

i just saved a copy online (file name= Besluitvorming 3.0). I tried to render the video withou voice over but now it freezed with 'only a few seconds remaining'. Hope someone can tell me what i do wrong, because i have only used pics from the library, nothing fancy..

bests,

Manuel

Ian Howlett

On Wed, 18 Jun, 2014 at 6:32 PM

Hi Manuel

The voiceover issue can be fixed by removing it and adding it in again: we're looking in to why this happened.

I think the error at the end may be due to a large zoom and the scribe being asked to 'zoom at end' to show everything. Can you try rendering without 'zoom at end' set and see if it then completes?

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Fiona Zwart

On Tue, 1 Jul, 2014 at 3:21 PM

Hi,

I have the same problems too. Could you please have a look at my video?

It's called 'Boost Your Website les 1.'

I've saved a copy online.

Looking forward to hear from you,

Fiona Zwart

Andy Hardyman

On Tue, 1 Jul, 2014 at 4:05 PM

Hi Fiona,

I am looking at your scribe now.

Which problem are you getting exactly? Is it a publishing problem or a Youtube problem?

Regards

Andy

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Fiona Zwart

On Tue, 1 Jul, 2014 at 5:53 PM

Hi Andy,

The problem is, I can't publish my video into a YouTube video neither to a PowerPoint presentation...

I see this: "Preparing video information ..." with a white canvas...

Regards,

Fiona

Andy Hardyman

On Wed, 2 Jul, 2014 at 9:55 AM

Hi Fiona,

There is a problem with publishing to wmv for some users - the Youtube and PowerPoint options both use wmv. We are currently testing a fix for this and it should be released soon.

In the meantime you can publish to your hard drive and select mov or flv. You will see the 'Preparing video' message for a little while as your scribe is quite big.

Regards

Andy

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stephane lemercier

On Wed, 2 Jul, 2014 at 1:29 PM

Hi,I have to report somewhat a similar issue when trying to export my Scribe to PowerPoint. At the end of the generation process, I do get this dialog prompting for the folder where to save my PPTX but no file is actually generated.In case you need to reproduce the described symtom, i saved my Scribe on the cloud. it is named

PLS_UseCase_Alert_Final.

Pls confirm the issue and let us know as soon as a fix is released.

Thx.

Andy Hardyman

On Wed, 2 Jul, 2014 at 2:48 PM

Hi Stephane,

Yes, the issue that you are describing is the one that we are currently testing the fix for.